At 8:30 AM -0500 on 12/8/00, BNA Highlights wrote: > THOUGH TECHNOLOGY MIGHT HELP PRIVACY > A meeting of business leaders in Redmond, Washington led to > a frank debate over the insufficiency of North American > action on consumer privacy and the potential for technology > to play a key role in protecting such privacy. For example, > Bill Gates announced that the next version of IE would > better allow consumers to ascertain Web site privacy > policies. > http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/08/technology/08SECU.html -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'